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Rising AIDS Rates Has Isreali Officials Worried |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
HIV may be a relatively small problem in Israel, but the soaring rate
of new infections among vulnerable populations has forced health
officials to take action.
According to the Israel AIDS Task Force (IATF), a non-governmental
organisation (NGO) providing HIV and Aids education and support, among
men who have sex with men (MSM) the proportion who contracted HIV had
shot up by 67 percent between 2006 and 2007.
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Using the Net to Track Infectious Disease |
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
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Could Internet discussion forums, listservs, and online news outlets
be an informative source of information on disease outbreaks? A team of
researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
thinks so, and it has launched a real-time, automated data-gathering
system called HealthMap to gather, organize and disseminate this online
intelligence. They describe their project in this week's PLoS Medicine.
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New antibiotic beats superbugs at their own game |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
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The problem with antibiotics is that, eventually, bacteria outsmart
them and become resistant. But by targeting the gene that confers such
resistance, a new drug may be able to finally outwit them. Rockefeller
University scientists tested the new drug, called Ceftobiprole, against
some of the deadliest strains of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA) bacteria, which are responsible for the great majority of
staphylococcal infections worldwide, both in hospitals and in the
community.
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Breast-Feeding, Antiretroviral Prophylaxis, and HIV |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
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More than 200,000 of the 500,000 new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections that occur each year in children are the result of transmission of the virus through the mother's breast milk.1 In resource-constrained environments, how do we continue to promote breast-feeding, an important intervention for child survival,2 without exposing more infants to this risk? This fundamental question plagues mothers and caregivers, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where such choices are made every day.
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